WELCOME TO SOLARITE. Cats representing the four elements fight to survive and take all they can from the others. Pollution and mysterious events is what keeps everyone down, sometimes it proves to even be fatal. It's 'fend for yourself', everybody against everybody. Who will win? Who's side are you on?
The serval was making his way along the beach's shoreline, though dodging the inching water that threatened to lick his paws. He didn't like getting his paws wet, as pathetic as it sounded; he preferred a heated environment, though it was rarely too hot thanks to the ocean's breeze. But he chose to live here, he should have known. After all, it wasn't too bad-- he liked to eat the crabs that scuttled along, and the odd boats that swam past in the distance were odd sights, too.
Recognizing Absalon from both his joining and the gathering, Harborpaw approached silently, paws making small imprints in the wet sand. So far, she hadn't really talked to him other than introducing herself; and, since the trainee liked to get a sense of who she was living with, Harborpaw would pause in front of him with a nod of her head.
"Hello, Absalon; nice seeing you again." the pure white feline spoke, brown and blue eyes meeting the serval's own with a sense of curiosity.
He blinked once as Harborpaw seemed to approach him; he felt like nodding at her and just walking past, but that would be rude-- but ugh. Who cared if he was rude or not? He was a minor and quiet guy, there was no need for him to make friends or attract attention and whatnot. It was unnecessary, but apparently he was obligated to do so when he chose to live here.
But he was just introverted because he lived as a loner for the first six months of his life. That was a bucket of fun, wasn't it? "Hello-- I forgot your name, I'm sorry." He was so.. blunt, though he didn't mean to be. His facial expressions remained to be apathetic and blank, though he soon cocked a brow as he examined her. "Dock..paw, right?"
Dockpaw? A small smile ringed her maw at that, though she shook her head and corrected, "Harborpaw." It was quite an odd name, though; she couldn't even think of what her warrior name would be. Harborfur? Hmph, as if. Perhaps she'd get one of those odd ones, though, where the new part wedged its way in front... that could work.
Shaking her head to clear her thoughts, the apprentice added, "Well, how are you?" Harborpaw wasn't good with small talk, so she decided to start it off simple, with something she couldn't mess up.
Well, he sure fucked that up. Woops. Well, now he felt awkward as hell-- almost as awkward as he was around Ranunculae, though thst was just a whole new level of social... awkwardness.
"Sorry." The serval replied with a frown, though he decided against pressing it. "I'm-- good. Bored. But I get bored easily, I guess. What about you?"
"I have to agree." Harborpaw mused, squinting as she looked up at the sky. There wasn't a lot to do in the Aquinites, other than patrols; and those could get boring after a while. "Yes, I'm bored as well; perhaps we could do something together?" What, she wasn't sure; really, though, anything would be better than standing around.
Oohh, hopefully this girl didn't like trouble-- she did not seem to be the type that would love danger, though you could never really tell at a first glace; perhaps she was punk rock. Hardcore punk rock. He didn't like those kinds of girls, they were loud and they liked getting him in trouble.. He would rather be a quiet good little boy, but it seemed as though others did not want that. Like.. Ranunculae. But eh, she was ok. She was really pretty too.
"Yeah." He meowed in acknowledgement, nodding his compact head slowly. "Well-- what do you want to do? I'm not very interesting.. Maybe we could, erm, jump the rocks near the beach?"
Harborpaw had tried jumping across rocks on a similar beach when she was much younger, and it hadn't ended up too well; they were wetter than she'd thought, and the apprentice had ended up tumbling off, dislocating her shoulder.
A small frown appearing on her features, she hesitated for a moment before answering, "Yes, we can try that." She'd feel nervous, no doubt, but Harborpaw supposed she had to face her fears; she couldn't live her whole life afraid of rocks.
"Alright then, Dockpaw." He meowed, his mistake going unnoticed by even himself. He always thought of her to be Dockpaw, not Harborpaw; remembering her real name was going to take a..while, to say the least. Was it rude? Maybe, but it was not intentional or meant to be in a teasing way.
And so, the tall wildcat turned on his heels, going off to trot towards the rocks. He could see them from the distance of where he was, it was maybe a five minute walk-- but five minutes could be a lifetime, if it was quiet. And awkward.
After a time lapse, it seemed as if they'd reached their destination. The rocks climbed up high and the tides swirled threateningly, screaming into the sky and ready to claim anyone's life. It was rather dangerous, and perhaps it was a bad choice to bring her here-- but she did not deny.
Deciding not to mention his interpretation of her name, Harborpaw sighed as she followed after the lynx, blue and brown eyes soon finding the rocks that stood in the distance. They were... taller than she'd imagined, and the tide crashing against them looked bad. If she were to fall off, who knew what would happen?
Swallowing, Harborpaw would stare down at the water for a moment before hopping onto the nearest rock, half of which was absorbed by the cliff.